golden

1 having qualities which inspire hope this may be your golden moment to impress a baseball scout, so don't blow it Synonyms of golden auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, hopeful, heartening, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, upbeatWords Related to golden cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing; assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating; beamish, bullish, eupeptic; favorable, goodNear Antonyms of golden cheerless, comfortless; doubtful, dubious, uncertain; bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable; funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretchedAntonyms of golden bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones sang in a golden alto that filled the concert hall Synonyms of golden resonant, orotund, plangent, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrantWords Related to golden deep, full, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, plummy, rich; loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderousNear Antonyms of golden cavernous, hollow; faint, low, murmurous, muted, smothered, soft, weak; thin, tinny

3 marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically the golden age of industrialization Synonyms of golden booming, boomy, flourishing, prosperous, halcyon, healthy, lush, palmy, prospering, roaring, successful, thrivingWords Related to golden affluent, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do; comfortableNear Antonyms of golden declining, dying, failing, floundering, languishing, struggling; bankrupt, bankrupted, insolventAntonyms of golden depressed, unprosperous, unsuccessful

4 of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color a golden Labrador Synonyms of golden fair, flaxen, blond, sandy, straw, tawnyWords Related to golden ocherous (or ochreous); ash-blond (or ash-blonde), blondish, strawberry blonde (or strawberry blond), towheaded; gold, light, whiteNear Antonyms of golden black-a-vised, brown, brunet (or brunette), dark, olive, swart, swarthy; black, ebony, raven

5 pointing toward a happy outcome that new job is a golden opportunity Synonyms of golden auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitiousWords Related to golden fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential; advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutaryNear Antonyms of golden unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky; calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous; baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threateningAntonyms of golden dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious